#curtain

I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting. ↗

— James Stewart

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Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

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A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain. ↗

— Douglas Horton

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I don't display my plaques and honors. They are hidden behind a black curtain in my work room at home. ↗

— John Cameron

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The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

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When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain. ↗

— Norman Lear

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I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. ↗

— Groucho Marx

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The first time it felt really dangerous, like the sort of thing you had to lock the doors and close the curtains on because if anybody saw you, God would strike you down with a thunderbolt. But I took to it like a duck to water. ↗

— Jamie Muir

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Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

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